By All Accounts: General Stores and Community Life in Texas and Indian Territory Volume 6

by Linda English

Book Overview

The general store in late-nineteenth-century America was often the economic heart of a small town. Merchants sold goods necessary for residents' daily survival and extended credit to many of their customers; cash-poor farmers relied on merchants for their economic well-being just as the retailers needed customers to purchase their wares. But there was more to this mutual dependence than economics. Store owners often helped found churches and other...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806168838
• ISBN13: 9780806168838
• Release Date: March 2021
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"